A Hairstyle's Not A Lifestyle.

Another Part Of What Gave Me A Questioning, Rabble-rousing, Activist Heart And Soul Is That When All These Heavy Events Went Down, My Parents Did Not Shelter The Kids From It.

News Footage Came On The Tv During Dinner Of Bloody Bodies Coming Back From Battle In Vietnam, Or The Race Riots In The South, People Getting Hosed In Selma, Alabama, Or The Biafra War, Where I Got My Name. In My Household, It Was Explained And Discussed With The Children, As A Way Of Educating Us From When We First Started Grade School Why Racism And War Were Wrong, What This All Really Means.

And We Will Not Let Campbell's Soup, Old Navy, Or Anybody Else, Hammer Into The Minds Of Girls As Young As Six Years Old That They Should Always Hate Their Bodies And Always Be On A Diet!

From The Beginning, There Was So Much Pressure In The Early San Francisco Punk Scene For Everyone To Be Different Than Everyone Else, To Flaunt Your Intelligence And Insights Instead Of Every Band Sounding Alike, Like What Plagues Punk Music In Particular Today.

Shut Up, Be Happy. Obey All Orders Without Question. The Happiness You Have Demanded Is Now Mandatory.